was once desirous of levying taxes according to his own fancy.--"Invincible lord," said his Vizier to him, "your subjects cannot be taxed beyond what is prescribed by the law and the prophet." This identical M.Bonaparte, when at Ham, wrote as follows:-- "If the sums levied each year on the inhabitants generally are employed for unproductive purposes, such as creating _useless places, raising sterile monuments, and maintaining in the midst of profound peace a more expensive army than that which conquered at Austerlitz_, taxation becomes in such case an overwhelming burden; it exhausts the country, it takes without any return."[1] [1] _Extinction of Pauperism_, page 10.
With reference to this word budget an observation occurs to us.

In this present year 1852, the bishops and the judges of the _Cour de Cassation_,[2] have 50 francs per diem; the archbishops, the councillors of state, the first presidents, and the procureurs-general, have each 69 francs per diem; the senators, the prefects, and the generals of division receive 83 francs each per diem; the presidents of sections of the Council of State 222 francs per diem; the ministers 252 francs per diem; Monseigneur the Prince-President, comprising of course, in his salary, the sum for maintenance of the royal residences, receives per diem 44,444 francs, 44 centimes.

The revolution of the 2nd of December was made against the Twenty-five Francs! [2] Court of Appeal.
V THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS We have now seen what the legislature is, what the administration, and what the budget.
And the courts! What was formerly called the _Cour de Cassation_ is no longer anything more than a record office of councils of war.

A soldier steps out of the guard-house and writes in the margin of the book of the law, _I will_, or _I will not_.

In all directions the corporal gives the order, and the magistrate countersigns it.